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U.S. Dollar Mixed After Housing, PPI Data

Updated Sept. 20, 2006 12:01 a.m. ET

The dollar put in a mixed performance, dropping on dollar-negative U.S. data but recovering later in the session on fears of turmoil in emerging markets.

The dollar slid on data indicating that U.S. housing starts fell sharply in August and that core producer prices rose much less than economists had expected. As news emerged during the New York morning of a military takeover in Thailand, the dollar retraced some lost ground.